Presenting the latest data and policy recommendations, UN and international experts have called on governments and stakeholders to urgently prioritize action for universal access to electricity and ...

Rwanda tops 40 Sub-Saharan African countries in policy and institutional quality Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, and Kenya follow with strong performance Infrastructure, public services, and ...

The report adopts a life-cycle approach to analyze how gender-related barriers impact Batswana from early childhood to ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -The global destruction of wetlands, which support fisheries, agriculture and flood control, may mean the ...

A significant iteration of that Agenda is the vision of Nigeria becoming a $1trn economy by 2030. This is a very noble vision ...

The BJP pointed to a fall in the Gini Index — from 28.8 in 2011–12 to 25.5 in 2022–23 — as a sign of declining income inequality.

The World Bank is reconsidering its ban on financing upstream projects amid a push to bolster the power sector. The World Bank's board lifted its ban on nuclear power financing on Tuesday and is ...

The World Bank is ending its long-standing ban on providing funding for nuclear energy projects - and will be open to supporting efforts to extend the life of existing reactors and accelerate the ...

The World Bank’s board lifted its ban on supporting nuclear power, and is discussing whether to fund natural gas exploration and production, as it seeks ways to bolster access to electricity to ...

WASHINGTON-The World Bank on June 10 slashed its global growth forecast for 2025 by four-tenths of a percentage point to 2.3 per cent, saying that higher tariffs and heightened uncertainty posed a ...

The World Bank has slashed its global growth forecast to 2.3%, citing trade tensions driven by US tariffs as the primary cause of the sharp downturn.

The World Bank on Tuesday agreed with President Trump's complaint that foreign countries engage in unfair trade practices with the US and urged the nations to ease their tariffs on American exports.